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  • Visitors looking at animals in the cattle show of the Smithfield Club. Wood engraving, 1842.
  • Men, women, and children praying at a shrine by the roadside during the 1873 cholera epidemic in Poland. Wood engraving by H. Woods, 1873.
  • A Chilean bellflower (Lapageria rosea): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855.
  • Seven plants, including an orchid, a campanula and a penstemon: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an opening flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.
  • Four British garden plants, including a clematis: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A plant (Mesembryanthemum barbatum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1789.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a begonia: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.
  • Boer War: British soldiers outside their tent in camp at Chieveley, eating pineapples. Halftone, c. 1900, after G. Browne.
  • Jasmine (Jasminum hirsutum): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1815, after S. Edwards.
  • Clearweed (Pilea pubescens): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by Weddell, c. 1824, after J. Curtis.
  • Ten flowering plants, including an orchid and a pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava). Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
  • Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.
  • Boer War: soldiers in camp at Bloemfontein being provided with tea as they awake. Halftone, c. 1900, after R. Cleaver after C. Ross.
  • A lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium sallieri): flowering plant. Chromolithograph, c. 1885, after P. de Pannemaeker.
  • Seven plants, including four orchids and a campion: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria being presented with flowers by a Victoria Jubilee Nurse at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Hatherell after W. C. Mills.
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • A plant (Escallonia montevidensis): flowering stem. Coloured etching by F. Smith, c. 1834, after himself.
  • Nine flowering plants, including three orchids. Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
  • Boer War: soldiers' graves at Rondesbosch decorated with floral tributes for Easter. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. S. Smith.
  • Boer War: two aristocratic ladies in the grounds of a large house used as a military hospital at Rondebosch, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after Duffus Brothers.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • The evolution of a cat into an old woman, and her stool into a dog into a man in a cage into her skirt; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Flamingo flowers (Anthurium scherzerianum): flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.
  • American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.